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(No Model.)

H. W. JONES.

CUFF HOLDER.

No. 482,311. Patented Sept. 6, 1892.

- o .1 l I WITNESSES:

INVENTUFU- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY IV. JONES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-TENTH TO AUGUSTUS H. BRINKMANN, OF SAME PLACE.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,311, dated September 6, 1892.

Application filed June 13, 1892. Serial No. 436,628. (No model.)

'To all whom it may concern: is drawn inward and the shank of the button Be it known that l, HARRY WALTER JONES, enters the slot Z), while the head takes over acitizen of the United States, residing at Baltithe metal on either side of said slot and may more, in the State ofMaryland,have invented lodge in any one of the indentations e of the 55 certain new and useful Improvements in Ouffresilient strip d, which are over the slot. In

Holders, of which the following is a specificathis way the cuff may be adjusted to the detion. sired position and will be there held by the This invention relates to an improvement engagement of the head of the sleeve-button in cuff-holders; and the object is to provide in an indentation of the resilient strip. 60

to a simple and cheap device which can be easily I have shown two constructions for attachand quickly-applied and adjusted and which ment of the holder to the cuff, one adapted may be adapted for cuffs to be worn with for cuffs with link-buttonsand illustrated'in double or link buttons or for cuffs to be worn Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and the other adapted for with single buttons. cuffs having single buttons and illustrated in 65 To this end the invention consists in the Figs. 4. and 5.

novel features of construction hereinafter de- In the former case the plate has a lateral scribed. extension f on each side at a suitable point,

The invention is illustrated in the accomwhich, as here shown, together form a flat cirpanying drawings, in which cular enlargement of the plate. A head 1 is 70 Figure l showsafront or face view of a cuff formed at the outermost point of each of for link-buttons and connected with wristsuch extensions and is connected by a narband of a shirt by myimproved holder. Fig. row shank or neck h with the plate. The 2 shows a longitudinal section on line 2 2 of holder thus constructed is applied to a cuff Fig. 1, the holder being shown in side elevaby inserting the heads 9 through two opposite 75 tion. Fig. 3 shows a face View of the holder buttonholes of said cuff with the circular endetached. Fig. 4 shows asimilar View to Fig. largeinent of the plate on the inner side and 1 of a culf for single button and connected serving as aspreader to keep the edges of the with a Wristband by my improved holder cuff apart, as is desirablein a cuff where linkadapted in form for this style of cuff. Fig. 5 buttons are used. This is well illustrated in 80 shows a side edge View of this latter form of Fig. 1. It will be seen that with this construcholder. tion ordinary cuffs may be worn with link-but- The holder comprises a metal plate A, havtons and theirconfronting edges properly kept ing an enlargement a at one end, an approxiapart. mately-circularopeningbat saidenlargement, The construction illustrated in Figs. l and S5 and a slot 0, extending from said opening 5for cuffs with single buttons consists in formlengthwise of the plate. The plate is prefering a round headz' at the end of the holderably bent outward at. the end where the enplate with a shoulder j between it and the larged part a is. The metal of the plate plate. This head is simply inserted through which is removed from the slot and opening one or two buttonholes of the cuff and the 90 40 forms a resilient strip d, which remains conshoulder j prevents the cuff from slipping oil? nected with the plate at its ends. This strip or sliding back on the plate. It is obvious is bent outward from the plate at each end the construction for attachment to the cuff and is corrugated or fluted throughout its may be varied. length, thereby forming a series of indenta- Having thus described my invention, what 95 tions e, the first one of which at one end is I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters over the opening a. The holder is construct- Patent, is ed at one end for attachment to the cuff and 1. A cuff-holder comprising a body portion at the opposite end is attached to the wrist constructed for attachment to the buttonhole band by fitting it over the sleeve-button B of of a cuff and havinga longitudinal slot which 100 said wristband, the head of the said button receives the shank of the sleeve-button and entering through the opening a. The holder a resilient strip extending lengthwise of the largements On two opposite sides of the plate having means of attachment at their outer ends with the huttonholes in the confrontingedges of the cuff, said enlargements or extension serving as a spreader, substantially in the manner described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY W. J ONES. Witnesses:

JNo. T. MADnoX, F. PARKER DAVIS. 

